boob coverings are weird but i must be the only one enjoying the aesthetics of these teasers... even the shape of the background is in line with her branding!
i just hope the concept doesn't end up being cute.
the boob part of the dress is weird af but whatever, i dont look into the teaser images or image too much, i just hope she gets a really good song. i wonder how alike or different she'll be from her kpop stars friends.
Lol all jokes aside, I hope so; I hated 2ne1 for I Love You and the concert promo, as well as the frozen big bang thing. I love the over styled look they put on epik high but do you recall the horrific green letters in the pics....
Ugh those letters... Usually, I found YG's teasers pretty bad, so I'm really surprised and pleased here (Lee Hi) and Epik High look. But I feel it was more Epik High having fun picking up nice styled clothes than YG thinking about something suitable !
Haha don't get me started on 2NE1... I didn't like the cover for I Love You, nor the clothing (and this has been the case for more than a year now that I think about it). But that's more a general disappointment with how 2NE1 is being managed...
And big bang... I'm getting also sick and tired with their styling. I guess why they wanna be different, original and so on (especially G-Dragon) but yeah, if it's poorly done like that frozen thing or "too much" like G-Dragon lastest styles, I'm not buying it !
Haha you might be right about epik high, but I think they are entitled to utilizing the resources of a big flashy label who likes them :)
I'm upset with what's going on with the girls as well, I think they have a lot of potential and a strong fan base and I don't think they're even giving us fan service at this point. I hate the styling post-I Am The Best, I have to admit. And the tour promo styling... no words. I liked how they looked in the mv for I Love You, but the rest of that promo vanished.
I think what I like about GD is that he it's a bit of a try hard sometimes :) that said, I'm glad the world tour is with the current styling because it is light years ahead of everything prior. It's going to be weird enough to see them irl, at least I won't have to avert my eyes.
I get that they want to be recognized for music, but they should get out of YG's building sometimes. TV shows aren't gonna do them bad... Plus they should release new songs. At least, one mini album. They can't do the same thing for more than a year, public is gonna be fed up with IATB. Well, I am already fed up though I love this song. The only thing I like, is that they gave rest after Minzy's grandma passed away. So I don't complain that ILY promo was too short. I wished they had pulled a mini album though.
Haha I get your point, GD is really entertaining on that issue... ;) Are you going to see them live ? OMGGGGG I would love to see them, I hope you'll enjoy every bit of it !
ya it was nice to see yg was human. you dont see that much in kpop. i think we just all need more stuff from them. the fan base is getting frustrated and the LAST THING you want in kpop is a dwindling fan base for a band that should be HOT HOT HOT.
im going to see them in LA on friday!!! it doesnt feel real AT ALL and i'm so thrilled. my friend and i are flying in for it :) i'm going to try really hard not to watch top do choreo because it will ruin his mystique for me lmao
I'm getting really tired with YG, but at least, he learned from his mistakes (BIG BANG had some really bad time in the past) and gives more time to his artists, now. And holidays. Well, at least more than other compagnies.
I agree with you, everyone is just getting frustrated. It's not like they have nothing... I'm pretty sure they are many songs stucked in YG department. But even with Nolza's promotion. Releasing one single at a time, for a so small record at the end, was pretty lame. I know that plans have been fucked up during ILY's promo, but I REALLY hope we'll have a full album next time. Or a mini album. Whatever we can get !!
I'm sooo jealous. I can't go to London concerts (right when I have exams...) and I actually HATE YG for doing two dates in the same European city. And it's just so expensive. I would LOVE to see TOP. He's my bias, and he's just so funny trying to move a bit his body and failing too, OMG. I would never stop watching him if I even get to see BIG BANG live once in my life.
quite true that yg is definitely improving over time... i just hope he gives 2ne1 the attention they deserve :(
ahh that is such a bummer that you have exams :( that's the same case with my sister so she can't come. i live in the middle of the usa so it's still not a cheap trip to either location, but it's one of those "once in a lifetime" things... the tickets were so expensive, i'm glad i am done with school and working so i can afford to go :/
i love top but i accidentally watched some fancams and his dancing is SO AWK OMG. so i am going to stare/drool when he is not doing choreo. and probably also when he IS doing choreo but that usually makes me giggle. <3
I feel like he knows how to make his artists recovering, but not promotting them. And not only 2NE1... Gummy and Se7en have disappeared.
Awww, I feel bad for your sister as well. And yes I'm sure it's also really expensive in LA, especially the travel, so it's really nice that you managed to get there anyway. "once in a lifetime", that could not have been said better :)
I loooove watching fancams. He's so funny, cute and awkward all in one. <3 That's parf ot TOP's charms... haha. That will probably be the same in LA !
gummy has a comeback soon i think! she's scheduled to be on some tv shows. idk where se7en is. marriage?? has he even released anything since last year? i think this year got really bottom heavy and overambitious (epik high, lee hi, supearls, "2ne1", new ppl idk) and all i can recall from the first half is big bang alive (which feels like foreverrr ago) and i love you which... yeah.
top is such a charmer...... he's my first ever celebrity crush (i know! so weird!) and it is so awk how much i fangirl over him. but still <3
OMMMGGGGG Gummy is coming back ? I would love it. But there must be a delay lol. And you're right, I don't think Se7en did anything since his last mini. He's close to the army also, we might not see him for a long time.
I agree with you. BIG BANG & G-Dragon were pretty much everything YG released at the beginning and middle of the year (minus 2NE1's ILY and Japanese tries) and now everyone is pushing themselves into the end of the year. I don't think it's a really smart move, they should get more time. Plus YG has potential to always have an artist promoting new material (more or less like SM is doing).
TOP is my first K-Pop crush, he's one of the reason I got interesting in K-Pop... I was fangirling already, I just found with TOP and Korea the perfect fangirl-world haha. I understand you, he really has charisma.
ok i just checked the yg app, gummy & se7en are doing a 'guerilla concert' (?) together on 11/1. idk what that means but it means they are on the schedule which is a huge deal... i swear the yg family strong heart is the only place i saw them this year. se7en should at least get another mini before he goes to the army.
yg should DEFINITELY always have someone promoting. they may not have the fanbase or the number of artists of an SM but there shouldn't be anything preventing foreverpromotion, especially with the new groups or if they get subgroups/bigbang solos going. now the first quarter of next year is going to be super busy for everyone releasing music and they will all be promoting new music at the same time. and the whole second half of the year will be tours again.
i actually got into kpop because of suju: a indie music blog posted one of their vids lol, but i grew out of them... i didnt get into bigbang until "Tonight" tbh!
Oh that's really nice ! I need to get that YG app lol. I agree with you ; I don't really like Se7en's songs but he definitively needs to comeback once before entering the army. I felt his last song was already about that (the one written by JYP), but then, no news about him. He was a Korean top star, he should get more time and promotions (unless he doesn't want it).
You're right, they don't have the fanbase just like SM. But they have a reputation of musical freedom and seem like going in a more diverse direction (Lee Hayi's debut song, that rock trainee boy, the pop new girl group...). They could definitively work on that. And as you say, they aso can promote subgroups and solos, it already saved BIG BANG as a group and gave much opportunities to the guys. YG definitively have enough artists and producers to come back every month, and not rushing every one at the end of the year. But the main point is delay. YG should never talk about plans, before them being absolutely sure. It's getting every one really frustrated ; other companies like SM Ent doesn't have that issue as much.
That's cute, I can definitively understand Suju's charisma, even though it didn't worked with me. I first knew DBSK (Mirotic area) but it was soooo different from anything I liked, that I couldn't get into it. A friend of mine made me a playlist with a lot of BIG BANG (VIP forever lol), 2NE1, Wonder Girls, After School, Son Dambi... And then, I was sold. I actullay was really disappointed with Tonight - I was waiting that comeback for so long - but I'm glad it worked for you ;)
tbh i'm not a fan of se7en's music either but he seems like a genuinely nice guy who went through a shitty scandal (i might have just described every man on yg...). i only want the best for them!
But the main point is delay. YG should never talk about plans, before them being absolutely sure. i agree so much! that's the worst. forever leaving us anticipating... but no new material?? that's now how you keep fans or gain new ones.
suju was a good intro, for the longest time i had no concept of kpop outside of sm (i thought every kpop group had a million members!), but now i don't really listen to ANYONE on sm lol. i reallllly loved Tonight. in my outside-kpop-life i was just transitioning from dancepop/indie rock to softer electrodance and Tonight arrived at the perfect time. i probably played that and Robyn's 'Body Talk' on replay for month in 2011. i don't think i would have gotten into bigbang at all if not for Tonight!
If they were delaying a bit and having plenty of new songs... It would be easily forgotten, but that's not the case, and that annoys me a lot with YG. Guess I don't like a lot of YG, except the artists, when I think about it haha.
haha that's the reason I never really got into them : they're so many of them... I feel sad that fans forced SM to keep them as a band, while they could have been put into better/smaller groups. Oh well, it worked for them this way... I hope the members left won't be too much forgotten once they're all in the army. Tonight arrived also at a strange moment for BIG BANG, at least I think about it. It was their first release as a band for a long time, but I felt as they were not back as a group yet. Which didn't helped me back then. With time, I like Tonight more and more, it's a growing song !
i thought it was interesting that they haven't quite decided on a leader now that leeteuk is in the army... awkward. there are really too many people in some of those really big groups, i can't get used to that :/
i think you're right that Tonight arrived at an odd time; they had all been separated for so long when they released it. then they had a weird year in 2011... but i think they were in a better place for Alive and hopefully after this tour they record more new music!
I don't see anyone replacing Leeteuk, even if I'm not that familiar with Super Junior and the guy. I hope they'll have collabs, subgroups or solos. That's not much of an investisment, ELF are gonna buy anyway, lol.
Well some rumors even said they were close to disband at that time - and then Daesung's accident. And I think that solo promotion and more time given to each member saved the group ! Alive definitively arrived at a better time, they were prepared and happy to be back together. I hope they'll comeback as BIG BANG next year, and that Daesung/Seungri will have the opportunity to drop some solo stuff. And my BIG BANG fanheart would be pleased, haha.
i dont know suju very well either but i think you're right. the subgroups should keep going, but whatever they do the ELFs will still go to their concerts lol. i just don't love their music...
next year i'm hoping for at least a bigbang mini along with gdtop volume II and solos for the rest of the group. that would be awesome!
I like some things from time to time... and no recent songs. I would like KRY to have better songs and promo, they have potential. That's all I could care about, lol.
GTOP <3 That would be amazing, the Volume I was my jam for ages. But I'm dying for Daesung's solo, I mean, he's the only one that haven't released anything (apart from a few songs a long time ago), so I would hope it to come before... (if it ever comes out of YG, lol). And yes to at least a mini... Anything made by the group !
yes, i saw the smtown version of "sorry sorry" by kry and it was amazing! but the rest of the kry songs are ballads and not really my scene... i like to dance lol
i'm curious to what daesung's solo would be like. i didnt love "wings" or his other solo songs so i wonder how the album will sound! vvip and solar are both very different from bigbang's style so i'm curious about daesung... i would die if we got more gd&top... especially if they do some collabs with bom...!
The saaame. Their voices are good but most of Korean ballads bores me lol.
I'm curious as well. I actually loved VVIP & Solar partly because it was different from BIG BANG and at the same time so accurate with Seungri's and Taeayang's styles. GTOPBOM should be a subgroup, for real. Every time I have those three together... Forever With You and We Belong Together were huge hits for me, Oh Yeah as well. It just looks like they love singing together, they're always having so much fun on stage.
It just looks like they love singing together, they're always having so much fun on stage. this!! top looks way more comfortable on stage if it's just him and gd, and bom is so full of energy when she is with them! one can dream...
Well, TOP looks always better with people around him. I was not surprised to hear in Omona that he actually said he didn't like performing alone. But yes, one can dream... But seeing how Bom is used in almost every YG collab, we could have some other GTOPBOM collab next year !
Everything fits together very well, the black and white plus pastels in the outfit and the background, the font, her girly hair and make-up, the cute but cheeky pose. I like.
The boob top, ok, that might be YG's idea of avantgarde but I can overlook that. On the plus side, it managed to draw everyone's attention to the teaser image and obviously made people talk about it ;)
I liked the green one too because it wasn't what most other companies would use as a visual concept for a debuting teenage artist. YG's playing with people's expectations (and may be subverting them?) and I really like that. Can't wait for the actual song!
mte!! yg's marketing for lee hi looks mature yet she always looks her age. i'm excited for the song too!
jyp's 15& image was also age appropriate, in a different way, and i really loved the choice of their debut song. i'm glad we're seeing this trend instead of how i see IU: her voice is crazy amazing but i can't get behind her sound :/ i'm looking for something else out of kpop i guess
Hah yes, I was thinking of IU when I wrote my previous comment! The kind of music she's releasing seems so bland compared to what she actually could be doing with that voice and talent of hers. Makes me wonder what she would look and sound like if she was under a company that didn't want to market her as the "nation's little sister"...
when i was watching Dream High i had those exact thoughts lolol. her vocals are bonkers but her persona bores me. if i compare it to b1a4's sandeul, whose voice is out of control, i'm glad his agency is actually having him do Immortal Song (like she could have...). i only recently got on the b1a4 train (after loving their singles forever) but i think the vocal style/song variety can only make them better.
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Date: 2012-10-26 07:45 am (UTC)i just hope the concept doesn't end up being cute.
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Date: 2012-10-26 09:18 am (UTC)Otherwise, I like this teaser, the styling is nice. Did YG hired some new graphist ? #Joking
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Date: 2012-10-26 02:48 pm (UTC)Haha don't get me started on 2NE1... I didn't like the cover for I Love You, nor the clothing (and this has been the case for more than a year now that I think about it). But that's more a general disappointment with how 2NE1 is being managed...
And big bang... I'm getting also sick and tired with their styling. I guess why they wanna be different, original and so on (especially G-Dragon) but yeah, if it's poorly done like that frozen thing or "too much" like G-Dragon lastest styles, I'm not buying it !
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Date: 2012-10-26 03:00 pm (UTC)I'm upset with what's going on with the girls as well, I think they have a lot of potential and a strong fan base and I don't think they're even giving us fan service at this point. I hate the styling post-I Am The Best, I have to admit. And the tour promo styling... no words. I liked how they looked in the mv for I Love You, but the rest of that promo vanished.
I think what I like about GD is that he it's a bit of a try hard sometimes :) that said, I'm glad the world tour is with the current styling because it is light years ahead of everything prior. It's going to be weird enough to see them irl, at least I won't have to avert my eyes.
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Date: 2012-10-29 01:07 pm (UTC)The only thing I like, is that they gave rest after Minzy's grandma passed away. So I don't complain that ILY promo was too short. I wished they had pulled a mini album though.
Haha I get your point, GD is really entertaining on that issue... ;)
Are you going to see them live ? OMGGGGG I would love to see them, I hope you'll enjoy every bit of it !
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Date: 2012-10-29 02:11 pm (UTC)im going to see them in LA on friday!!! it doesnt feel real AT ALL and i'm so thrilled. my friend and i are flying in for it :) i'm going to try really hard not to watch top do choreo because it will ruin his mystique for me lmao
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Date: 2012-10-29 02:25 pm (UTC)I agree with you, everyone is just getting frustrated. It's not like they have nothing... I'm pretty sure they are many songs stucked in YG department. But even with Nolza's promotion. Releasing one single at a time, for a so small record at the end, was pretty lame. I know that plans have been fucked up during ILY's promo, but I REALLY hope we'll have a full album next time. Or a mini album. Whatever we can get !!
I'm sooo jealous. I can't go to London concerts (right when I have exams...) and I actually HATE YG for doing two dates in the same European city. And it's just so expensive.
I would LOVE to see TOP. He's my bias, and he's just so funny trying to move a bit his body and failing too, OMG. I would never stop watching him if I even get to see BIG BANG live once in my life.
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Date: 2012-10-29 02:43 pm (UTC)ahh that is such a bummer that you have exams :( that's the same case with my sister so she can't come. i live in the middle of the usa so it's still not a cheap trip to either location, but it's one of those "once in a lifetime" things... the tickets were so expensive, i'm glad i am done with school and working so i can afford to go :/
i love top but i accidentally watched some fancams and his dancing is SO AWK OMG. so i am going to stare/drool when he is not doing choreo. and probably also when he IS doing choreo but that usually makes me giggle. <3
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Date: 2012-10-29 02:52 pm (UTC)Awww, I feel bad for your sister as well. And yes I'm sure it's also really expensive in LA, especially the travel, so it's really nice that you managed to get there anyway. "once in a lifetime", that could not have been said better :)
I loooove watching fancams. He's so funny, cute and awkward all in one. <3 That's parf ot TOP's charms... haha. That will probably be the same in LA !
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Date: 2012-10-29 03:39 pm (UTC)top is such a charmer...... he's my first ever celebrity crush (i know! so weird!) and it is so awk how much i fangirl over him. but still <3
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Date: 2012-10-29 08:24 pm (UTC)I agree with you. BIG BANG & G-Dragon were pretty much everything YG released at the beginning and middle of the year (minus 2NE1's ILY and Japanese tries) and now everyone is pushing themselves into the end of the year. I don't think it's a really smart move, they should get more time. Plus YG has potential to always have an artist promoting new material (more or less like SM is doing).
TOP is my first K-Pop crush, he's one of the reason I got interesting in K-Pop... I was fangirling already, I just found with TOP and Korea the perfect fangirl-world haha. I understand you, he really has charisma.
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Date: 2012-10-29 08:50 pm (UTC)yg should DEFINITELY always have someone promoting. they may not have the fanbase or the number of artists of an SM but there shouldn't be anything preventing foreverpromotion, especially with the new groups or if they get subgroups/bigbang solos going. now the first quarter of next year is going to be super busy for everyone releasing music and they will all be promoting new music at the same time. and the whole second half of the year will be tours again.
i actually got into kpop because of suju: a indie music blog posted one of their vids lol, but i grew out of them... i didnt get into bigbang until "Tonight" tbh!
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Date: 2012-10-30 10:43 am (UTC)You're right, they don't have the fanbase just like SM. But they have a reputation of musical freedom and seem like going in a more diverse direction (Lee Hayi's debut song, that rock trainee boy, the pop new girl group...). They could definitively work on that.
And as you say, they aso can promote subgroups and solos, it already saved BIG BANG as a group and gave much opportunities to the guys. YG definitively have enough artists and producers to come back every month, and not rushing every one at the end of the year.
But the main point is delay. YG should never talk about plans, before them being absolutely sure. It's getting every one really frustrated ; other companies like SM Ent doesn't have that issue as much.
That's cute, I can definitively understand Suju's charisma, even though it didn't worked with me. I first knew DBSK (Mirotic area) but it was soooo different from anything I liked, that I couldn't get into it. A friend of mine made me a playlist with a lot of BIG BANG (VIP forever lol), 2NE1, Wonder Girls, After School, Son Dambi... And then, I was sold.
I actullay was really disappointed with Tonight - I was waiting that comeback for so long - but I'm glad it worked for you ;)
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Date: 2012-10-30 07:58 pm (UTC)But the main point is delay. YG should never talk about plans, before them being absolutely sure. i agree so much! that's the worst. forever leaving us anticipating... but no new material?? that's now how you keep fans or gain new ones.
suju was a good intro, for the longest time i had no concept of kpop outside of sm (i thought every kpop group had a million members!), but now i don't really listen to ANYONE on sm lol. i reallllly loved Tonight. in my outside-kpop-life i was just transitioning from dancepop/indie rock to softer electrodance and Tonight arrived at the perfect time. i probably played that and Robyn's 'Body Talk' on replay for month in 2011. i don't think i would have gotten into bigbang at all if not for Tonight!
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Date: 2012-10-30 08:17 pm (UTC)If they were delaying a bit and having plenty of new songs... It would be easily forgotten, but that's not the case, and that annoys me a lot with YG. Guess I don't like a lot of YG, except the artists, when I think about it haha.
haha that's the reason I never really got into them : they're so many of them... I feel sad that fans forced SM to keep them as a band, while they could have been put into better/smaller groups. Oh well, it worked for them this way... I hope the members left won't be too much forgotten once they're all in the army.
Tonight arrived also at a strange moment for BIG BANG, at least I think about it. It was their first release as a band for a long time, but I felt as they were not back as a group yet. Which didn't helped me back then. With time, I like Tonight more and more, it's a growing song !
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Date: 2012-10-30 08:36 pm (UTC)i think you're right that Tonight arrived at an odd time; they had all been separated for so long when they released it. then they had a weird year in 2011... but i think they were in a better place for Alive and hopefully after this tour they record more new music!
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Date: 2012-10-30 08:43 pm (UTC)Well some rumors even said they were close to disband at that time - and then Daesung's accident. And I think that solo promotion and more time given to each member saved the group ! Alive definitively arrived at a better time, they were prepared and happy to be back together. I hope they'll comeback as BIG BANG next year, and that Daesung/Seungri will have the opportunity to drop some solo stuff. And my BIG BANG fanheart would be pleased, haha.
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Date: 2012-10-30 08:53 pm (UTC)next year i'm hoping for at least a bigbang mini along with gdtop volume II and solos for the rest of the group. that would be awesome!
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Date: 2012-10-30 09:38 pm (UTC)GTOP <3 That would be amazing, the Volume I was my jam for ages. But I'm dying for Daesung's solo, I mean, he's the only one that haven't released anything (apart from a few songs a long time ago), so I would hope it to come before... (if it ever comes out of YG, lol).
And yes to at least a mini... Anything made by the group !
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Date: 2012-10-30 10:12 pm (UTC)i'm curious to what daesung's solo would be like. i didnt love "wings" or his other solo songs so i wonder how the album will sound! vvip and solar are both very different from bigbang's style so i'm curious about daesung... i would die if we got more gd&top... especially if they do some collabs with bom...!
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Date: 2012-10-30 10:27 pm (UTC)I'm curious as well. I actually loved VVIP & Solar partly because it was different from BIG BANG and at the same time so accurate with Seungri's and Taeayang's styles.
GTOPBOM should be a subgroup, for real. Every time I have those three together... Forever With You and We Belong Together were huge hits for me, Oh Yeah as well. It just looks like they love singing together, they're always having so much fun on stage.
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Date: 2012-10-31 02:36 pm (UTC)But yes, one can dream... But seeing how Bom is used in almost every YG collab, we could have some other GTOPBOM collab next year !
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Date: 2012-10-26 11:25 am (UTC)When boredom strikes..
Date: 2012-10-26 02:39 pm (UTC)It's not anything really better. I just want the boob patting and dress pattern to go away ;~;
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Date: 2012-10-26 04:40 pm (UTC)They're in desperate need of someone who can use photoshot rather than paint
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Date: 2012-10-26 02:59 pm (UTC)but her makeup and hair is simple which is unusual for YG so i appreciate the hell out of that.
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Date: 2012-10-26 03:18 pm (UTC)The boob top, ok, that might be YG's idea of avantgarde but I can overlook that. On the plus side, it managed to draw everyone's attention to the teaser image and obviously made people talk about it ;)
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Date: 2012-10-26 06:53 pm (UTC)LOL This.
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Date: 2012-10-26 10:49 pm (UTC)i liked the mint green teaser as well :)
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Date: 2012-10-26 11:16 pm (UTC)jyp's 15& image was also age appropriate, in a different way, and i really loved the choice of their debut song. i'm glad we're seeing this trend instead of how i see IU: her voice is crazy amazing but i can't get behind her sound :/ i'm looking for something else out of kpop i guess
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